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lawful Lord; but unto the Crowned Child is it known? It is not known if
it
be known.
22. Therefore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the End and
the
Beginning; yea, in the End and the Beginning.
LIBER A'ASH
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CAPRICORNI PNEUMATICI
SUB FIGURA CCCLXX.
0. Gnarled Oak of God! In thy branches is the lightning nested!
Above
thee hangs the Eyeless Hawk.
1. Thou art blasted and black! Supremely solitary in that heath of
scrub.
2. Up! The Ruddy clouds hang over thee! It is the storm.
3. There is a flaming gash in the sky.
4. Up.
5. Thou art tossed about in the grip of the storm for an aeon and an
aeon
and an aeon. But thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not.
6. Only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great God
F.I.A.T.
is entroned on the day of Be-With-Us.
7. For two things are done and a third thing is begun. Isis and
Osiris
are given over to incest and adultery. Horus leaps up thrice armed from
the
womb of his mother. Harpocrates his twin is hidden within him. SET is
his
holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of M.A.A.T., that
is
being interpreted the Master of the Temfle of A: A:, whose name is
Truth.
8. Now in this is the magical power known.
9. It is like the oak that hardens itself and bears up against the
storm.
It is weather-beaten and scarred and confident like a sea-captain.
10. Also it straineth like a hound in the leash.
11. It hath pride and great subtlety. Yea, and glee also!
12. Let the Magus act thus in his conjuration.
13. Let him sit and conjure; let him draw himself together in that
forcefulness; let him rise next swollen and straining; let him dash back
the
hood from his head and fix his basilisk eye upon the sigil of the demon.
Then let him sway the force of him to and fro like a satyr in silence,
until
the word burst from his throat.
14. Then let him not fall exhausted, although he might have been ten
thousandfold the human; but that which floodeth him is
the infinite mercy of the Genitor-Genitrix of the Universe, whereof he
is the
Vessel.
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